Category Archives: David Harvey

A Marxist critique of higher education – David Harvey interview at FreshEd To celebrate the 100th episode of FreshEd, I’ve saved an interview with a very special guest. Back in October, I had the privilege of sitting down with Professor … Continue reading →

I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

David Harvey’s The Ways of the World; the first edition of Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault; Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues; Alex Danchev’s biography of Georges Braque; and Elizabeth Goodstein’s Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary … Continue reading →

Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey in The Observer This fall marks the 150th anniversary since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. In his groundbreaking series, Marx famously defined capital as value in motion, architecting an … Continue reading →

Also from David Harvey, and if you can cope with Russell Brand… Russell Brand and David Harvey, ‘Marxism On The Rise – Can It Really Defeat Capitalism?‘ Podcast Harvey’s new book is Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

David Harvey, ‘Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason’ – video of LSE talk, 18 September 2017 Download : Audio, Video Editor’s note: We regret to say that owing to a technical problem the first few minutes of the … Continue reading →

David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason forthcoming in August Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics … Continue reading →

Derek Gregory has written a nice tribute to geography editor John Davey, who died recently. Davey worked with Edward Arnold and Blackwell, and published David Harvey’s early books, as well as many others, including Derek’s Geographical Imaginations. I didn’t know him in person, … Continue reading →